It was 40 years ago today...(The Sgt. Pepper Birthday Thread)

**Blackbird** · #1 06-01-2007, 06:55 AM

...that the world was first introduced to a magic little record called Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts' Club Band!

(Ok, June 1 in the UK, June 2 stateside, but still...)

I've owned and loved this album for more than half my life and it never gets old.

Favorite songs, anyone? My favorite is "Being for the benefit of Mr. Kite!"

ctbass · #2 06-01-2007, 07:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Blackbird

...that the world was first introduced to a magic little record called Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts' Club Band!

(Ok, June 1 in the UK, June 2 stateside, but still...)

I've owned and loved this album for more than half my life and it never gets old.

Favorite songs, anyone? My favorite is "Being for the benefit of Mr. Kite!"

Groundbreaking; technically and musically. 40 years!!!!!!!!?????? Enjoy this life everyone, it flies.

SuperDuck · #3 06-01-2007, 07:10 AM

So that's why they were going on and on about it on the radio this morning...

Andrew Jones · #4 06-01-2007, 07:13 AM

Happy Birthday!!

Lovely Rita!!! That outro is like porn music! Funky.

I LOVE THE BEATLES

Lazylion · #5 06-01-2007, 02:06 PM

I'm glad I'm not too young to understand why they were the greatest!

cb56 · #6 06-01-2007, 02:10 PM

one of the best!
I'd never heard that strange thing at the end until I bought the CD version. Where was it on the album? did you have to rip the label off to play it??? I know I'm clueless. I probably had the butcherblock version of yesterday and today and didn't even know it.

bassist15 · #7 06-01-2007, 06:22 PM

Awesome album. It is one of my favorite albums and its one of the only albums I can sit and listen through all the way. The Beatles sure knew what they were doing.

Baryonyx · #8 06-02-2007, 07:02 AM

A timeless record, for sure.

Planet Boulder · #9 06-02-2007, 07:56 AM

The Beatles were so far ahead of their time it was absurd, especially post-"Help" (not that that wasn't great - it's just that there most ground-breaking stuff came after that, IMHO).

Nino Valenti · #10 06-02-2007, 08:14 AM

Wow!!! I've been listening to this album since I was at leat6 or 7 years old. My mom had it on vinyl and I used to listen to it all day long. One of my all time favorite albums!!!!!

Happy birthday Sarge!!!!!

kevin_lindsay · #11 06-02-2007, 08:29 AM

To use an oft quoted refrain -

"It's getting better all the time!!!"

Bassin' · #12 06-02-2007, 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by cb56

one of the best!
I'd never heard that strange thing at the end until I bought the CD version. Where was it on the album? did you have to rip the label off to play it??? I know I'm clueless. I probably had the butcherblock version of yesterday and today and didn't even know it.

I'm pretty sure the strange track on the end of Sgt Pepper's was on the British version of the LP only. When they finally mastered the Beatles music onto CD they went with the English versions of all the albums so it was only then that it was included in the U.S.

corinpills · #13 06-03-2007, 10:09 AM

And what if I told you that most of us have never even heard the album properly? Why? bceuase you really need to hear it in mono to hear the mix the Beatles, George Martin and Geoff Emerick say really matters. The BBC was broadcast in mono in those days and Sgt. Pepper was mixed for weeks on a single monitor. The stereo mix was very much an after-thought, hastily panned to appeal to the very small amrket of audiophiles who would buy the stereo version. I have a vinyl mono copy and it friggin' burns the strereo CD version. It totally brings out the rocking edge to such a pastoral album. McCartney's vocals on the title track are up there with Helter Skelter as some of his greatest screaming. Do yourself a favor and track down a mono copy and you'll hear guitar parts that aren't in the stereo mix an dget a whole new perespective on an album you think you know inside and out.

driver800 · #14 06-03-2007, 10:15 AM

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Originally Posted by kevin_lindsay

To use an oft quoted refrain -

"It's getting better all the time!!!"

"It can't get much worse."

wolfs · #15 06-03-2007, 04:46 PM

loved the album when i was a kid... definitely not something i put on these days. a day in the life is still an astonishing track.

what's cool about the beatles is that much of their work has just as much appeal for children as it does for adults. while i've strayed from listening to them on regular basis, it's hard to deny their greatness and accomplishments.

Saetia · #16 06-03-2007, 04:55 PM

I feel odd to be posting on this thread being as I'm only 22, yet I grew up entirely on the beatles stuff. Same goes for both my younger and older brother. When I read this thread my brother and I just started belting out the lyrics to SGT Peppers Lonely Heart's Club band!

Thanks for posting this thread and thanks to the beatles for being phenominal.

<---- big british teeth

Peace

-Benny